NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  08-09-2023

In this episode Anne van Mourik speaks with visual historian Kylie Thomas (University College Cork and NIOD) about the meaning of the medium of photography for thinking about the Holocaust. How can photographs intersect with how we perceive this history? What happens when images relating to the Holo...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  30-05-2023

Laurien Vastenhout and Anne van Mourik speak with historian Anna Hájková about her landmark work The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (Oxford University Press). What was life in the Theresienstadt ghetto like, and what does this case study tell us more generally about human behav...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  14-04-2023

Wat kun je lezen in de dagboekcollectie van het NIOD? Aan de hand van dagboekbeschrijvingen vertelt collectiespecialist Michiel Wilmink over de levens van mensen in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. We horen over de date-ervaringen van dwangarbeider, over een politieman die Jodenarresteert en over hoe het dag...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  23-03-2023

How do Kurdish women struggle to voice themselves in contemporary Turkey? Anne van Mourik speaks with Marlene Schäfers (Utrecht University) about her book ‘Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey’ (University of Chicago Press, 2022). What does it...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  24-02-2023

Why does the Jewish Council phenomenon remain such a controversial topic? Anne van Mourik speaks with Laurien Vastenhout on her new book ‘Between Community and Collaboration: “Jewish Councils” in Western Europe under Nazi Occupation’ (Cambridge University Press). What were differences and si...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  07-02-2023

What was the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) like as a lived experience? Anne van Mourik speaks with historians Abdul Wahid, Yulianti and Roel Frakking about their new book Revolutionary Worlds: Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-49 (Amsterdam University P...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  19-01-2023

How is memory weaponised in the Russian-Ukrainian war? In this episode, Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt talk with historian Nanci Adler. How does she, as a scholar of transitional justice, reflect on this conflict? What is the significance of Vladimir Putin’s shut down of the Russian human rig...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  24-11-2022

How does the current Russo-Ukrainian war impact the memory of the Holodomor – the man-made famine in 1932-33? How do the recent Spanish memory laws impact present-day discussions of the Años del Hambre, the years of hunger during the Francoist dictatorship? And how are memories of the Scottish Hi...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  04-11-2022

Why do humans fight? Anne van Mourik speaks with Sinisa Malešević (University College Dublin) on his new book (published by Cambridge University Press). Drawing on interviews with former combatants, Sinisa explores how violence operates in the context of face-to-face actions. What motivates human...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  06-09-2022

In this episode Anne van Mourik and Dat Nguyen talk with Tam Ngo and Sarah Wagner on the remains of the war dead of the Vietnam-American War (1957-1975). Following the end of the war, the commemoration and identification of the fallen and missing-in-action soldiers from both the Vietnamese (North an...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  29-08-2022

Ever since its founding an important theme within NIOD research has been 'violence': the perpetration of violence, the legacies of violence, and the multilayered experience of violence and its effects on individuals, communities and nations. To renew thinking on the core question of what constitutes...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  30-05-2022

Het NIOD beheert meer dan 2500 meter archiefmateriaal: van een op sigarettenvloei geschreven dagboek uit een Japans interneringskamp in de Tweede Wereldoorlog tot aan archiefmateriaal verzameld en opgemaakt gedurende het Srebrenica onderzoek in 1996-2002. Hoe wordt deze bulk aan data opgeslagen en d...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  11-05-2022

Why was music key to anticolonial and antiracist cultural politics in interwar Paris? Anne van Mourik interviews Rachel Gillet on her new book At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris. In the aftermath of World War I, Black men and women participated in the Parisia...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  11-04-2022

In this episode of NIOD Rewind Anne van Mourik speaks with Ralf Futselaar about his inaugural lecture Born under a bad sign. The indelible Marks of Total War on Twentieth Century Lives (November 2021). Ralf warns against focusing too much on individual lives in historical narratives that suppose to...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  23-03-2022

How did Germany and the Netherlands deal with violent political groups of the 60s and 70s? How can we compare this with Dutch reactions to violent political groups? And how to understand current far right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) politics? Anne van Mourik speaks with professor Jacco Peke...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  28-02-2022

How and why did the rules of war come about? To what extent and how can the 1949 Geneva Conventions be operationalised in both past and contemporary war? In this episode Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt talk with historian Boyd van Dijk about his brand-new book Preparing for War: The Making of th...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  21-02-2022

What is the value and meaning of political apologies across cultures? In this episode Anne van Mourik speaks with historian Marieke Zoodsma, who researches how apologies are expressed and received across the world. How do political authorities across the world address or redress past wrongdoings in...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  19-11-2021

How did the First World War transform the lives of ordinary people all over the world? In the latest episode of NIOD Rewind, Anne van Mourik interviews Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames about their new book Global War, Global Catastrophe: Neutrals, Belligerents and the Transformations of the First W...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  19-10-2021

What did it mean to live in Europe under German occupation? In this episode Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt talk with professor Tatjana Tönsmeyer on the new Source Edition Fighting Hunger, Dealing with Shortage. Everyday Life under Occupation in World War II Europe. How did these two volumes co...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  20-09-2021

In deze speciale editie van Niod Rewind zitten Anne van Mourik en Thijs Bouwknegt aan de directeurstafel van het Niod. Ze spreken met Martijn Eickhoff en Frank van Vree. Martijn volgde op 1 september 2021 Frank op als directeur. Wat dreef hen om de Tweede Wereldoorlog, de Holocaust en wereldwijd mas...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  10-05-2021

Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview historian Kylie Thomas and journalist Michael Schmidt, discussing forced disappearances under Apartheid South Africa. Michael is the author of Death Flight: Apartheid's secret doctrine of disappearance, which investigates and tells the history of Aparthe...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  21-04-2021

What are the problems of genocide and how to rethink mass death? In this episode Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview historian Dirk Moses, whose book The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression just came out. How does the legal concept of genocide distort...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  01-04-2021

War, mass violence and its consequences are not a thing of the past. They are very much present in the world of today and tomorrow. In collaboration with the NIAS, researchers of the NIOD Institute are teaming up with a group of international scholars, in order to develop an innovative and multidisc...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  15-03-2021

What kind of knowledge can we gain from WWII games? In episode 12 of Niod Rewind, Anne van Mourik interviews Pieter van den Heede about his dissertation 'Engaging with the Second World War through Digital Gaming', which he defended last February (2021). Pieter studied how digital entertainment games...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  09-11-2020

In this episode of NIOD Rewind, Anne van Mourik speaks  with Ismee Tames and Robert Gildea about their new book Fighters across  Frontiers. Transnational resistance in Europe, 1936-1948. The book is  the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, and  it reveals that resista...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  31-08-2020

Anne van Mourik talks with Roel Frakking on the term 'extreme violence'  and the importance of local dynamics in researching decolonisation  conflict. Roel is a postdoc researcher at the Royal Netherlands  Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (KITLV, Leiden) where he is  researching the regional...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  30-06-2020

In episode 9 of NIOD REWIND, Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview historian Kerstin von Lingen. Prof. Dr. Kerstin von Lingen is a historian and researcher, Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. From 2013-2017, she led an independent research group...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  18-05-2020

In episode 8 of NIOD REWIND, Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview historian Iva Vukušić. Iva is a lecturer at Utrecht University and a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London. She recently defended her PhD — online (!) — which focuses on Serbian paramilitaries and irregula...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  08-05-2020

In deze speciale reeks van de NIOD Rewind podcast gaan  onderzoekers van het NIOD in op de coronacrisis en de onzekere tijden  die dit met zich mee brengt. Hoe ervaren zij de crisis zelf? En hoe  analyseren zij, vanuit het perspectief van hun onderzoek, de  gebeurtenissen in de samenleving? Anne...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  28-04-2020

In deze speciale reeks van de NIOD Rewind podcast gaan  onderzoekers van het NIOD in op de coronacrisis en de onzekere tijden  die dit met zich mee brengt. Hoe ervaren zij de crisis zelf? En hoe  analyseren zij, vanuit het perspectief van hun onderzoek, de  gebeurtenissen in de samenleving? In d...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  14-04-2020

In this seventh episode of NIOD REWIND Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview Prof. dr. Peter Romijn. Peter is head of the Research Department of the NIOD and Professor of Twentieth-Century History at the University of Amsterdam. Recently he published a new book about The Netherlands at war i...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  07-04-2020

In deze speciale reeks van de NIOD Rewind podcast gaan  onderzoekers van het NIOD in op de coronacrisis en de onzekere tijden  die dit met zich mee brengt. Hoe ervaren zij de crisis zelf? En hoe  analyseren zij, vanuit het perspectief van hun onderzoek, de  gebeurtenissen in de samenleving? In d...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  31-03-2020

In episode 6 of NIOD REWIND Anne van Mourik and Thijs  Bouwknegt interview historian Ingrid de Zwarte (Wageningen University).  De Zwarte's research explores the role of food and famine in modern  conflict in the broadest sense: from hunger as a political and military  tool in warfare to social...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  26-03-2020

In deze speciale reeks van de NIOD Rewind podcast gaan  onderzoekers van het NIOD in op de coronacrisis en de onzekere tijden  die dit met zich mee brengt. Hoe ervaren zij de crisis zelf? En hoe  analyseren zij, vanuit het perspectief van hun onderzoek, de  gebeurtenissen in de samenleving? In d...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  26-02-2020

Anne talks with Farabi Fakih about the Indonesian national identity during the revolutionary period in Indonesia (1946-1948). Farabi is a lecturer at the History Department, Universitas Gadjah Mada. His main research interests are on urban history, the history of the Indonesian state and the intelle...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  13-02-2020

In this special edition of NIOD REWIND, Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview scholars from various backgrounds and disciplines on the topic of Displacement. In December 2019,  the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies organised a conference in collaboration with IMIS Univ...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  22-01-2020

Anne van Mourik spoke with historian Natalya Vince of the University of  Portsmouth. Natalya has carried out extensive field research in both  Algeria and France since 2005 including interviewing Algerian women who participated in the War of Independence (1954-1962) about their  experiences in po...

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  17-12-2019

The NIOD REWIND Podcast presents interviews with scholars on the history  and study of mass violence, war and genocide. In the second episode  Anne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt speak with Wim Manuhutu.

NIOD Rewind Podcast on War & Violence  /  13-11-2019

The NIOD REWIND podcast presents interviews with scholars on the history and study of mass violence, war and genocide. In the first episode Anne  van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt talk to Professor Kees Ribbens about his research on World War Two and the representation of the Holocaust in  comic book...